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Psychiatric Services
Clinics, etc. Out-patient clinics for psychiatrics are held
as follows: —
Greenwich District Hospital
(a) Miller Wing Monday morning
Wednesday morning and
afternoon
Thursday afternoon
(b) St. Alfege's Wing Monday evening
Tuesday morning (Children's
Diagnostic Clinic)
Thursday afternoon
St. Nicholas Hospital Monday afternoon
Wednesday afternoon
Friday afternoon
Seamen's Hospital Tuesday afternoon
Woolwich Memorial Monday afternoon
Hospital Wednesday afternoon
Thursday
friday } All day
Domiciliary visiting is carried out in most cases, for the Bexlcy
Hospital policy is not to admit unless patient has been seen by
one of their consultants.
Mental Hospitals apart, there are only 3 doctors in the
Borough approved in accordance with the Mental Health Act and
the situation would be eased considerably if more local general
practitioners could be so authorised.
A ccommodation
Although the number of beds available to our psychiat ic
patients is unspecified, little trouble is experienced in obtaining i dmission
of adults to Bexley Hospital within whose catchment ar a
this Borough falls. Our difficulties arise with the children for, other
than at the Maudsley Hospital which caters for the country as a
whole and is therefore very selective, no such accommodation is
available to them. A few psychotics from the old Metropolitan
Borough of Greenwich are admitted to Mabledon Park Hospital,
Dartford, and restricted use is made of the emergency accommodation
at St. Francis Hospital, Dulwich. Limited treatment is afforded
at the Castlewood Day Hospital.